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On May 20, 2024, a memorial symposium will be held as a remembrance and celebration of the life and scientific work of Dr. Dana Ballard (1946–2022), </div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">who was a pioneer in the study of computer vision, neural computation, human vision and motor coordination, and robotics.</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> Dr.
Ballard was a professor of</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Center for Perceptual Systems.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">As part of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2024,
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">we will host a morning seminar session celebrating Dana Ballard’s research with presentations by: Rajesh Rao, Jochen Triesch, Chen Yu, </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Virginia De Sa, Constantin Rothkopf, Janneke Jehee, and Ruohan Zhang.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Memorial Session Website:
</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><a href="https://la.utexas.edu/users/dil/symposium%20_icdl/index.html" id="OWAc6d59055-eba6-d13e-a426-77379e648f0d" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://la.utexas.edu/users/dil/symposium%20_icdl/index.html</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Date: Monday May 20, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Time: 8:30 am to 12:00 pm</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Location: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The session is free but we ask that you kindly register your plans to attend via the Google form listed on the session website, </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">or via the direct link here:
</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI5RRtrBBlKpEi3wcXw30MBM3nfe7mwCjkUIvHAdmtjTIpBw/viewform" id="OWAa2c0e52e-5139-878e-fbb1-0c403faa2d52" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI5RRtrBBlKpEi3wcXw30MBM3nfe7mwCjkUIvHAdmtjTIpBw/viewform. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Registration
for the Dana Ballard Memorial Symposium at ICDL 2024 (google.com)</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Note that registration for the main conference is not required, but if you are interested in attending the main conference, you can register here:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/298b4f7f-1772-4c46-b774-f438a164f72f/summary" id="OWAb11c75ce-c12b-10cd-1297-3d92385fc0d8" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://web.cvent.com/event/298b4f7f-1772-4c46-b774-f438a164f72f/summary</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Information about accommodation is available on the main conference web page.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please note I have shifted to honorary status at the University of Bristol and do not check this email regularly.</span></p>
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